Congratulations to Dr. Vijay Kumar Thankur, who has been part of the research group since January 2013, on his new job at Cranfield University (50 miles north of London). Vijay will be a tenured lecturer at Cranfield University’s School of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing Engineering.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Michael Kessler, Berry Family director and professor in Washington State University’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME), has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. <More>

Our paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces titled “Photoresponsive Liquid Crystalline Epoxy Networks with Shape Memory Behavior and Dynamic Ester Bonds” (doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b04374) has received significant “buzz” in the popular media. Starting with a press release by WSU News, released on June 30, the article has been picked up and re-reported by the following sources:

Jonathan Moore, who is working as an undergraduate research assistant in the group, was recently recognized at the college’s annual convocation ceremony last week as the Outstanding Sophmore in the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University. Jonathan Moore, who’s from Milton, Wash., works with PhD student Mitch Rock conducting research on aligned carbon nanotube sheets, gives tours as an Honors Hall ambassador, is Honors Hall president and is on the Associated Students of WSU senate. <more>